§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a report on the effect of marginal rates of taxation on pensioners' working behaviour; and when he expects this to be.
§ Mr. OrmeThe work of assembling evidence on this matter, which my hon. Friend the former Under-Secretary mentioned in his reply to the hon. Member on 8th April—[Vol. 909, c.320]—has only just begun; and it is too early to say how soon it will be completed or whether it will enable any firm conclusions to be drawn.